How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
Because all the thought processes are limited, they are conditioned, and the thought does not touch directly with the reality, the truth; thoughts only grasps at the image of the truth.
Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
I think truth is weirder than fiction.
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
